Buddhistic Quotes

#1. To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having ... money in the bank.

Tom Robbins

#3. I'm optimistic, and I have a lot of goals. And I obey the laws of nature: I eat, exercise, and rest properly. But mostly it's about keeping the mind engaged. My grandmother lived to 104, and she had all of her faculties. I'm physically active and devout - just not as Buddhistic as she was.

George Takei

#4. Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

Mason Cooley

#5. I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.

Charles Hazlewood

#6. If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

Jostein Gaarder

#8. Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.

Camille Paglia